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6.1.17 Fields: Template properties

Path: Administration > Catalog Management > New/Edit > Template properties

On the Template properties tab, you can specify the basic properties of your service template. Here, you name your service template, specify the type of template, and assign any tags or description metadata to your service template.

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Template name

Lets you specify the name of the template. This field is required.

Template type

Lets you specify what type of service template you want to create. This field is required.

Choose one of the following:

Option Description
Container Specifies you want to create a container template.
Virtual machine Specifies you want to create a virtual machine template.
Physical machine Specifies you want to create a physical machine template.
Storage Specifies you want to create a storage template.

Tags

Lets you specify tag values for the service template. Separate multiple tags with commas.

Job template

Lets you specify which Moab job template you want to use to provision new instances of the service. The drop-down is populated via Moab Web Services with all Moab job templates that specify SELECT=TRUE. (See the Cloud Workflow example in the Moab Workload Manager Administrator Guide for service template workflow requirements.)

This field is required.

This field is not available when you select "Container" as the template type.

Description

Lets you specify a text description for the service template. The description will help your users easily identify which template they want to use when requesting a service.

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